Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Capable of being overcome or defeated.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Capable of being vanquished, conquered, or subdued; conquerable.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being overcome or subdued; conquerable.
- adjective (Theol.) ignorance within the individual's control and for which, therefore, he is responsible before God.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Capable of being
defeated orovercome ;assailable orvulnerable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective susceptible to being defeated
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the other hand, ignorance is termed vincible if it can be dispelled by the use of "moral diligence".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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What was thought to be Obama's invincible, laid-back intellectual approach turned out to be "vincible".
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For that reason, ignorance is sometimes voluntarily self-inflicted; Aquinas termed that "vincible" ignorance, which does not exculpate.
Archive 2007-09-01 Mike L 2007
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For that reason, ignorance is sometimes voluntarily self-inflicted; Aquinas termed that "vincible" ignorance, which does not exculpate.
On being the foremost of sinners Mike L 2007
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Drake, chased the "vincible" armada, as it was now termed, for some distance northward; and then, when they seemed to bend away from the
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885
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My friends and I knew we WERE 'vincible' and we drove accordingly.
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Other popular words and phrases among the top telewords of 2008 were the cliche used frequently by sportsmen and women, "It is what it is" at No. 3; "third screen" at No. 6, as in watching TV on a mobile phone; and No. 7 "vincible" applied to the upset of the seemingly invincible New England Patriots by the New York Giants in the 2008 Superbowl.
Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com 2008
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The historian Douglas Pike found in the writings of Aldous Huxley the perfect term for this conceit: “vincible ignorance,” or “that which one does not know and realizes it, but does not regard as necessary to know.”
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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The historian Douglas Pike found in the writings of Aldous Huxley the perfect term for this conceit: “vincible ignorance,” or “that which one does not know and realizes it, but does not regard as necessary to know.”
Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011
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His actions suggested invincibility, but his catch phrase indicated full awareness that he was indeed quite vincible.
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